adverse fate
Example Sentences
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What are poverty and adverse fate and mocking hopes and disappointed ambition to the soul which is only journeying through an unfriendly world to a heritage that cannot fail?
From A String of Amber Beads by Holden, Martha Everts
Say, Ellen, can you willingly encounter those storms of adverse fate, which may assail, and, perhaps, make me an exile from my native country for ever?
From Mystery and Confidence (Vol. 1 of 3) A Tale by Pinchard, Elizabeth
A fortnight had passed, and he defied his aunt, Monsieur Leroy, the whole world, an adverse fate, and the powers of evil.
From Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.
From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred
My lot has been to meet The bitter mixed with transient sweet; To struggle on, in toil and care, The tide of adverse fate to bear.
From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah
